BBC America Gets ‘Primeval’ With Thriller
Dinosaur Action Series Teed Up For Saturdays This Summer
By Kent Gibbons -- Multichannel News, 2/22/2008 5:28:00 AM
BBC America’s latest foray into Saturday night adventure series (Robin Hood, Torchwood) this summer is Primeval, a thriller that sees dinosaurs travel in time to wreak present-day havoc.
BBCA bought rights to two seasons (13 one-hour episodes) of Primeval, made by Impossible Pictures for U.K. broadcaster ITV and distributed by BBC Worldwide.
Primeval’s second season is now airing in the United Kingdom and ITV has commissioned a third, according to news reports.
It’s slated to join the schedule in August, possibly on Aug. 2, the network said.
Impossible Pictures also created the Walking With... series that, among other things, used computer animation and animatronics to recreate dinosaurs in their prehistoric environment.
Primeval's premise: Evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) discovers prehistoric creatures alive and well in the present day. Unexplained anomalies are ripping holes in the fabric of time, allowing creatures from the very earliest stages of Earth's development to roam the modern world. Global disaster looms.
Cutter, meanwhile, is searching for his wife, missing and presumed dead but has actually been traveling in the past. Now she’s back, with possible answers to the riddle of the anomalies. But is it an answer she’s willing to share?
BBC Worldwide America president Garth Ancier said in a release Friday: “Primeval is a perfect addition to our successful Saturday night menu of sci-fi and adventure. Torchwood and Robin Hood have done a tremendous job at the core of our schedule, building ratings and attracting younger viewers to BBC America. We think our audience will be excited by the addition of this prehistoric thriller — one of the latest big hits from the U.K.”
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